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NAME
osmosis - command line OpenStreetMap data processor
SYNOPSIS
osmosis [--command command parameters ...] ...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the osmosis command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a
manual page.
osmosis is a command-line Java program that processes OpenStreetMap data. It consistes of a series of
component which can be chained together in order to perform operations on OpenStreetMap databases or XML
files.
Such options include:
• Generate and load dumps from and to a database.
• Produce changesets comparing databases and files and applying them to other databases and files.
• Sort data contained in a file.
• Extract data contained in a bounding box or in a polygon.
OPTIONS
The commands and arguments accepted by osmosis are described in details and shown in examples in the page
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis and its subpages.
BUGS
The upstreams BTS can be found at http://trac.openstreetmap.org/. Bugs are also discussed on upstream
mailing list, at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev.
AUTHOR
Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani@poisson.phc.unipi.it>
Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 Giovanni Mascellani
This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General
Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
osmosis 04/01/2010 OSMOSIS(1)